Top 100 Torch Quotes
#1. However bright a torch might burn it could never match the rising sun.
George R R Martin
#2. The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
And made his torch their universal light.
So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.
John Dryden
#3. Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#4. I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
Billy Graham
#5. The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, because decaying matter, as the fireman said of fire (cited in the book's final piece, "Torch Song") "ain't got no rules on it."
Laura Mullen
#6. Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.
George Santayana
#7. It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.
David Letterman
#8. She could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent.
Virginia Woolf
#9. Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed. Smile on our loves. ...
Edward Abbey
#10. It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
Winston Churchill
#11. Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
Thomas Watson
#12. Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.
Joseph Conrad
#13. Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch, hope.
Eugene Uttley
#14. Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#15. I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.
Whitney Cummings
#16. Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.
Bryn Terfel
#19. Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. The renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and by a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a jeweled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain. Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book.
Oscar Wilde
#22. Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#23. It was the first kiss of her life to which her nature had really responded. It was a flaming torch that kindled desire.
Kate Chopin
#25. We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
#26. Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#27. You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
Dan Levitan
#28. I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
Jack Dee
#29. It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#30. The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
Lakshmi Mittal
#31. Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.
Wilferd Peterson
#32. The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.
Douglas Adams
#33. Without a torch, I stumbled along the paths. The night was dismal. A partial moon hovered bitter and white on the horizon. It was the perfect night for murder.
Kimberley Griffiths Little
#34. A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
Walter Scott
#35. Several minutes passed. Several more. Nothing but silence and darkness.
"I think they're gone," Brenda whispered. She flicked on her torch.
"Hello, noses!" a hideous voice yelled from the room.
Then a bloody hand reached through the doorway and grabbed Thomas by the shirt.
James Dashner
#36. Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.
Bill Jensen
#37. The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.
Herbert Hainer
#38. As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Kwame Nkrumah
#39. Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
Ellen Hopkins
#40. Judge not that ye be judged; we carried the torch to the goal.
The goal is won: guard the fire: it is yours: but remember our soul.
Breathes through the life that we saved, when our lives went out in the night:
Your body is woven of ours: see that the torch is alight.
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
#41. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.
Emma Lazarus
#42. King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.
Charlie Lovett
#43. Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...
T. S. Eliot
#44. The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.
Jacques-Louis David
#45. They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Marquis De Sade
#46. We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.
Nicolas Caussin
#47. A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.
Jaggi Vasudev
#48. If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword; I should emasculate right and left.
Patrick O'Brian
#49. Anything for Byron's least favorite apprentice. It's the least I can do since you took over my torch.
Rachel E. Carter
#50. G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
Adam Weishaupt
#51. Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.
Anthony Powell
#53. I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.
Sarah Waters
#54. Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.
Gunvor Hofmo
#55. He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
Jose Marti
#56. The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
John The Apostle
#57. Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.
John Calvin
#58. Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
Adolf Hitler
#59. Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.
Jimmy Buffett
#60. But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope.
Margaret Fuller
#61. Upon the earth appear'd, weeping, they bore Brave Hector out; and on the fun'ral pile Laying the glorious dead, applied the torch.
Homer
#62. Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing.
Victor Hugo
#63. Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
#64. 'Crucible' was going to be a 'passing of the torch' story. So something that was big enough to be worthy of that, that could show these characters being changed - along with their respective outlooks about life, the galaxy, and the Force - was Mortis.
Troy Denning
#65. As soon as he had departed she directed her attention to the others.
"I need a shielded containment box, radiation gloves and a micro welding torch. And a crescent wrench.
G.S. Jennsen
#66. It's inspiring to meet that flicker that ignites your candle with the hopes it turns into a torch to pass down to the next generation.
Jes Fuhrmann
#67. Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.
Martin Jacques
#68. Like Rabe'a, I didn't think people should believe in God because of heaven and hell. But I didn't feel a need to run around with a torch. You can't burn down a made-up place.
John Green
#69. Yeah? What're you planning?"
"She nixed the keg and the strippers, so I don't know. Maybe we'll have a bonfire and torch some furniture.
Jessica Martinez
#70. Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
Jerome K. Jerome
#71. To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.
Phyllis Diller
#72. The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch.
Method Man
#73. I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.
Robert B. Laughlin
#74. The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.
Mitt Romney
#75. We're all ridiculous ... all of us. It's as though we use a lit torch to search for light. You are enough. Know this and proceed through life accordingly.
Steve Maraboli
#76. Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
Gloria Steinem
#77. Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#78. Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
Khalil Gibran
#80. Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.
Jennifer Beals
#81. Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur
#82. She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a good way to break in their new paper shredder.
Woody Allen
#83. The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#84. It's not as if she needs the torch anymore, the welcome beacon to immigrants having been long since snuffed out. Probably
Kim Stanley Robinson
#85. To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
Queen Latifah
#86. Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
Thomas A Kempis
#87. Earth looked as if some god had attacked it with a welder's torch, slashing away at it and leaving thin trails of incandescence.
Neal Stephenson
#88. My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.
Herbert Hoover
#89. He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light
Michael Ondaatje
#90. A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch ... or a baton ... or something.
Mo Rocca
#91. One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.
Laura Mullen
#92. Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
Thiruvalluvar
#93. By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation,
Carl Lewis
#94. I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more truth to the story and not necessarily carry a torch for every Black person in America; just tell a story, and a good one too.
Romany Malco
#95. Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.
Mahmud Tarzi
#96. Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing
Karen Marie Moning
#97. A learned man who doesn't restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.
Shaykh Sa Di
#98. The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and it's true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven to seeking the truth about the world and themselves.
Stefan Emunds
#99. Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'
Sloane Crosley
#100. We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three [Batman films]. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.
Christian Bale
